please bleed on this cd for your diagnosis
this press release announces what is probably the coolest thing ever done with a cd (and yes, this includes high-rpm failure demonstrations).
in the journal Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, James La Clair and Michael Burkart describe a method “to screen the recognition between small molecule ligands and biomolecules using a conventional compact disc (CD) player.”
the full text of the paper is available from the abstract.
the project site doesn’t have much content, but if you want to get in touch with the researchers…
very cool.
one question: will cd-r’s used for biomolecular screening be subject to riaa-sponsored blank-media taxes?
Thanks – If one can tax the molecule would one? and what would it pay with?
Comment by J. La Clair — August 21, 2003 @ 5:23 pm
i think your molecules are safe (from the riaa, anyway, for now), but blank-media tax proposals presume that those darn polycarbonate discs are the tools of copyright infringers. you may have to prove that you’re not using them to hold stolen music, or you may just be charged (as in taxed) as if you were.
Comment by roj — August 22, 2003 @ 7:33 am